Improvement in hair-restoratives



UNITED STATES PATENT QFFICE.

JOHN NEWTON SMITH, OF OOLEMANSVILLE, KENTUCKY.

IMPROVEMENT lN HAIR-RESTORATIVES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 129,608, dated July 16, 1872.

Specification of an Improved Hair-Restorative, invented by J OHN NEWTON SMITH, M. D., of Golemansville, in the county of Harrison and State of Kentucky.

N attire and Objects of the Invention.

The subject of my invention is a preparation adapted to be used as a hair-dressing, and serving to prevent the hair falling oif, to encourage its growth, and to produce a luxuriant growth of hair on bald heads.

General Description.

My preparation is made in the following manner: Take dried leaves of sage, one ounce best black tea, one and one-half ounce; pure water or rain -water, one gallon; make an infusion, and add bay rum, one quart; pure glycerine, five ounces; tincture cantharides, one ounce; corrosive sublimate, thirty-two grains; box-wood leaves, one handful. Digest for three days, and perfume with oil of bergamot or other scent.

The first infusion may be strained before adding the other ingredients, or the .WhOlG mixture may be strained after it has stood three days or more to digest.

Claim.

I claim as my invention- The hair dressing or restorative, compounded substantially as herein set forth.

Witnesses:

J. NEWTON SMITH.

OOTAVIUS KNIGHT, WALTER ALLEN. 

